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Posted by John Hosking on 02/03/07 23:43
John Hosking wrote:
> Tomba wrote:
>
>> "Tomba" <tomba at pobox dot com> wrote in message
>> news:45c318ad$0$3024$426a74cc@news.free.fr...
>>
>>> I own one web page, hosted here:
>>> http://pubs.sdrt.org/
>>> The HTML was created in WORD 97 by an HMT SaveAs of the .DOC source.
>>> The page is three years old and I've just updated it.
>>> The webmaster now insists that all pages on his site pass the test at
>>> http://validator.w3.org/
>
>
>>
>> I ran the file against Tidy and the validations errors went from
>> thousands to 1; which was easily fixed by removing what I guess was an
>> old, now-redundant tag. I have a clean file!
>> My thanks to all who responded.
>
>
> Well, if you're happy, I'm happy, but the page you mentioned could still
> take some going over. For example, it starts with
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> <B><FONT SIZE=5><P>Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR)
> Bibliography</P>
> </B></FONT>
>
> which features misnested tags (and some questionable markup). Better:
>
> <h1>Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR) Bibliography</h1>
>
> styled per default or as you like.
>
> Not as much of a size saving per effort-minute required (compared with
> using HTMLTidy), but something to know about.
>
Sorry, I guess you didn't mean that you had uploaded the tidied file. I
see that that page (http://pubs.sdrt.org/) still shows
"Failed validation, 1484 errors" on the validator.
--
John
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